I prototype, design, and build delightful user experiences at Google.
I’m a Front-end Engineer fluent in Android & Web development and have a passion for UX.
I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Human-Computer Interaction program at Virginia Tech &
a Masters in CS from Georgia Tech.

According to my peers and managers, my skills lie in generating ideas &
prototyping new features, and perfecting the user experience on exploratory
projects. Most days, I split my time between creating prototypes and demos of
new features and on engineering tasks for more established projects.

User Experience & Design Consulting

A usable, friendly, and fast web site keeps users happy. Designing for usability is part art, part science. As a User Experience Consultant, I am happy to provide actionable suggestions to product teams that you can implement with your team. Read on for more details »

Current & Past Projects

Google Now

I currently work on building upcoming features for
Google Now, the contextual assistant that
provides you “the right information at just the right time”. Moving from web front-end engineering
to Android development has been a fun challenge!

Inbox by Gmail

I was a front-end engineer on the Inbox team,
a complete redesign of the email experience from the Gmail team. I worked on the “Inbox model”,
a term we used for the state transitions that form the crux of the Inbox experience: moving
messages between Done, Snoozed and Pinned states. I also developed various Web UI features,
including multi-selection, email actions, menus, the navigation bar, animations, etc.

This project was aligned closely with my dissertation interests because email is such an integral
part of our personal information. Many people use their email as a task list, we receive
confirmation emails about events, flights, trip plans, and so much planning happens within email.

As the team grew, I worked with a team of awesome front-end engineers to
productionize the application and eventually, to launch it. When Google Instant
launched in August 2010, it was referred to as the biggest change to Google
since the launch of Google itself.

Google Voice Search

After Instant, I worked with the Speech Recognition team to launch Voice
Search on Google.com.
I was the only Web Search engineer working on this project exclusively, and
thus was responsible for a majority of the front-end engineering work.